Big Business and State Socialism are very much alike, especially Big Business.
~ G. K. Chesterton
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Big Business and State Socialism are very much alike, especially Big Business.
~ G. K. Chesterton
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Silent people are dangerous; others are not so.
~ Jean de La Fontaine
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One does not become fully human painlessly.
~ Rollo May
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It is, I think, an indisputable fact that Americans are, as Americans, the most self-conscious people in the world, and the most addicted to the belief that the other nations of the earth are in a conspiracy to undervalue them.
~ Henry James
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To finish the moment, to find the journey’s end in every step of the road, to live the greatest number of good hours, is wisdom.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
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You don’t realize that you’re intelligent until it gets you into trouble.
~ James Baldwin
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Man is a Religious Animal. He is the only Religious Animal. He is the only animal that has the True Religion — several of them. He is the only animal that loves his neighbor as himself and cuts his throat if his theology isn’t straight.
~ Mark Twain
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There is properly no history; only biography.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Professional philosophers are usually only apologists: that is, they are absorbed in defending some vested illusion or some eloquent idea. Like lawyers or detectives, they study the case for which they are retained.
~ George Santayana
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Lack of originality, everywhere, all over the world, from time immemorial, has always been considered the foremost quality and the recommendation of the active, efficient and practical man.
~ Fyodor Dostoyevsky
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